I don't know how but a windows 7 machine I've recently had to use still got an update before shutting down...
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Everyone arguing about the amount of keypresses to type a shutdown command and time it takes to shutdown... I just power it off at the wall. One button press, shutdown is near instantaneous
Big brain move
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I usually map the power button to shut down, although on laptop if I close the screen after shutdown it'll go to sleep mid shutdown
I've never used systemd to shut down
Sudo shutdown -h now works on the Mac
I just use poweroff.
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Just poweroff is fine. Why lose extra 2.5 seconds typing two words when one word will suffice?
What?
sync ; sync ; sync ; shutdown -h now
Or nothing!
why?
It's traditional, it used to be done that way on old systems. It was done for extra luck I suppose.
Nowadays, shutdown syncs as a matter of fact, and filesystems are much less brittle.
Before Linux had a shutdown command, youβd run βsync && sync && syncβ then hit the power button.
is that true? i guess it makes sense. you dont "shutdown" DOS
Gotta make sure the FS cache syncs.
Not too sure, hence the use of semicolons instead of double ampersands, but a moderately high level of sure.
3 syncs? Sun Microsystems trainers told me 2!
Seems risky to me...
I just pull the power cord and let it figure it out
why use many word when few word do trick
Just alias whatever to "off"
I think doing just a poweroff might leave some services in an unclean state. I think systemctl poweroff make sure the services are shutdown cleanly before powering down.
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Five seconds? What's hogging that system? Mine is about two, at most, from the WM shutdown selection.
I get annoyed when a stop job shows up and I have to wait a minute. On my windows machines, that minute is the baseline and I half expect it to have decided to update and reboot itself again after. The difference is night and day
I just press shut down and leave
Hope its turned off when i get back
If that one thumb could read, this might make him mad
People give Windows a lot of flak for this, but at least it usually does turn off after finishing its updates.
MacOS is the one that will just literally ignore the fact that you told it to shut down. Or it takes forever to tell you that a program has unsaved changes. At least Windows will tell you that right away, so that you see the "something is preventing shutdown" message before you walk away from the computer. Your Mac will wait 15 minutes, and then be like, "by the way, the browser doesn't want to close."
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You guys turn off your computers?
Apparently there are a lot of ways to shutdown. halt is my preference from the command line.
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meanwhile on KDE: A stop job is running
Poor storage drives adding on power cycles